Help the Local Community

This team seeks to design and build efficient, off-grid hybrid energy charging stations at UCSD. The ultimate goal is to design micro-grids that suit these locations by combining compatible sustainable energy systems.

Upon achieving our goal, we will have taken a step away from fossil fuels and raised awareness of energy sustainability. By designing independent circuits, we will also have contributed to these three facilities' independence from fossil fuels and available power despite power outages.

Overall, students will help create a green, sustainable environment for future generations.

Project Manager:Tuong An Andre Quach

"AIChE Projects encourages the creativity and ingenuity of engineering students, providing experiences in areas less developed through technical engineering classes. In serving as a technical project, it provides necessary personal challenges in areas such as group communication, time management, and self-motivation, while also allowing members to make an impact on local sustainability."

Previous Project Managers:

Bryan Kirschner (Sept '17-Jun '18

Esteban Armijo (Jan.'16-Jun '17)

Nathaniel de los Santos (Sept '16-Jan '17)

Giahan Nguyen ( Jan '16-Jun '16)

Maggie Sung (Sep '15-Jan '16)

Joshua Navarro (Sept '15-Jan '16)​

Gain Skills as a Student & Professional

From this project, students will expand their knowledge of traditional circuits into energy systems. The project seeks to target the growing alternative energy industry and helps prepare students for system management and optimization.

It will provide students exposure to alternative power generation and allow students to design and create the most efficient operating condition and electrical pathway through analyzing the collected data of targeted area.

Students will learn how to collaborate with their team members and to attain a common goal together. The research they will do as a part of this team will require them to use the skills learned in their courses as well as to understand entirely new concepts as our work ventures away from our more traditional skill set. Finally, our project builds will give them practical experience working with exciting technologies and designing components.